UK government grants ‘critical’ status to veterinary medicines

A document published recently by the UK government entitled ‘Critical Goods for Government-Secured Freight Capacity: A List of Category 1 Goods’ has seen veterinary medicines feature as one of the so-called ‘critical goods’. According to the document, a category 1 good is one which is critical to the preservation of human or animal welfare and/or the national security of the UK. The government-secured freight capacity is intended to support the supply of category 1 goods which are currently reliant on the short strait (covering Dover, Folkestone, Calais, Dunkirk and Coquelles). The listed veterinary medicines were categorised according to regulations from the UK’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.